All three did miserably in the election, but since the Union remained the strongest, Merkel is the one to form a new government — if she can! But the SPD lost so miserably — down to But his SPD may well have to swallow those words, and his position may get swallowed up as well!

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With only two parties this would be easy; winner takes all! With one more, a smaller third party can choose which big one it favors and tip the seesaw in that direction.

They were a pretty radical bunch then, reflecting a giant West German peace movement which led over a million people on one day with many labor unions in demonstrations against stationing missiles in Germany. With four factors zürich bekanntschaft the Bundestag, a balance was possible: The SPD kept its union ties fabrik hamburg single party the fabrik hamburg single party of both were mostly well-off and tame.

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In this made it necessary for the two biggest parties, the CDU and the SPD, to overcome old-time differences and form the coalition described above. Since both had moved closer politically this was not quite so difficult — for the leaders. To make matters worse in every way, the far-right, Nazi-tinged Alternative for Germany AfD soared to No-one would coalesce with them either as yet?

But she tried to lure the two onto the ship of state, so the four parties negotiated, bargained, argued, made compromises, rejected them, insulted each other and withdrew the insults, talked and talked for weeks and weeks. Then suddenly, at the last moment, the head of the Free Democrats called a press conference to say that his party was bowing out.

One was a minority government, hitherto unknown on the federal level, with the chances of passing any law or decision dependent on which non-government parties would agree to support it. Angela Merkel rejected this out of hand; she wanted no unstable force, open to pro or con pressures on her plans for Europe and beyond. Nobody wanted them; they could end up much the same as the September vote or perhaps bring more gains for an opponent.

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Although some in the party do dream of someday being asked to join a coalition, this idea was never even vaguely broached by Merkel. Yes, the Greens and that one SPD cabinet minister did hit at environmental issues, but other basic issues were hardly even mentioned.

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